Description

ASHOVER
SK3463 HILL ROAD
1264-0/11/53 (East side)
Hill Cottage
GV II
House, formerly school. Dated 1703, but with earlier work, and
a comprehensive remodelling in the late C19. Coursed squared
gritstone with quoins, ashlar dressings, oversailing eaves and
verges, the eaves with plain bargeboards. End and ridge ashlar
stacks and a Welsh slated roof. South elevation of 2 storeys
and 3 bays, with gablets above first floor window heads to
outer bays. Central doorway with chamfered quoined surround,
and a massive lintel. Above a C19 door is an upper glazed
panel. Flanking windows with plain casements within flush
stone frames. Rectangular single-light window above doorway.
West gable with blocked 3-light late C16 chamfered mullioned
windows with 3-arched heads, and below a bulls-eye window.
Rear wing with ground-floor double doors, and first floor
plain casements. Above the door, a plaque is inscribed:
'George Hodgkinson of Overton Hall and Ann his wife designed
this school. It was finished by William Hodgekinson, his son
and Elizabeth his wife. Anno 1703. Udum et molle intum es nunc
preperondus et acti firgend es. Fine, Fine vota.'

Listing NGR: SK3494763710

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579984

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)